Season of Wonder Blog Hop Day 1!

I am so happy to be a part of today's Simon Says Stamp Blog Hop, over at the Simon Blog, celebrating their newest release, Season of Wonder!  Christmas is fast approaching, and what better time for a release filled with wonderful products to get your Christmas makings off to a great start!  I have used one of the beautiful new stamp/die sets, to make a couple Christmas cards for today's hop!...

This stamp set is a three part stamp which, when all stamps are stamped on top of one another, make a beautiful Christmas tree!  I have used three different colored green inks, to make each tree.  I will tell you, the easiest and best way to stamp this tree is by FIRST die cutting the tree, then placing the stamps OVER the die cut (I use my MISTI and a small tape runner to adhere the tree to the surface in the MISTI), thus fitting the stamp to the die cut.  This way, your stamping will match every curve of the tree....the branches move with the die cut curves.  For both cards, I used the Simon Falling Snow stencil for the background,  spreading paste over the stencil to make snow.  For the first card, I used the Elegantly Modern Christmas Greetings stamp/die set.  I also used gold glitter embossing powder for both the the decorations, as well as the stars of both trees.  I used an old embossing plate for the diagonal lines.  Here's a close up of this first card...

The second card, I changed layout, sentiment, and decoration on the tree...

I started with a very light gray cardstock, and put snow on it with the stencil and paste.  I then used one of the Simon Layered Hills dies, and made a hill of snow.  I used an older sentiment that "fit" into the space of this tree and layout, and popped both the tree and sentiment up with foam.  Here's a close up... 

Okay...I had SO much fun!!  My fun was above, your fun is below!!

Simon is generously giving a $25 coupon to every stop on the hop from our comment sections, so the more hop blogs you comment on, the more chances you will have to win!  Winners will be chosen and posted on the Simon Blog on Wednesday, October 11th, so make sure you check the Simon Blog on the 11th, to see if you are a winner!!  If you are a winner, you can email Simon to claim your prize!

The list of participants in today's hop are listed below...

 

Simon Says Stamp Blog 

Nina-Marie Trapani

Caly Person

Debby Hughes

Jennifer McGuire

Amy Rysavy

Suzy Plantamura

Emily Midgett

                                       Lisa Addesa<-------You are HERE    

Miriam Prantner

Yana Smakula

Tina Smith

Kath Stewart

Jean Doeringsfeld

Kim Hamilton

Seeka

 Two things before I end my post...There will be another blog hop tomorrow, so I hope you will check it out at the Simon Blog!  There is a whole bunch more inspiration and more chances for you to comment for winning one of the $25 coupons!  

The second thing, please don't forget about the offer in the banner at the top of my post!  The offer is for a free Graceful Holly 3D embossing folder with the purchase of $25 or more .  There are directions on how to do that in the banner above...follow the three steps and the embossing folder is yours for FREE, until the end of the day on October 8th or until supplies last!!

Thank you so much for stopping by, and please keep on hopping! 

Hugs!!  Lisa